The Need for Solidarity - Part 2
Martin Wicks is a trade union and political activist, a member of the GMB and Secretary of Swindon Trades Union Council. He edits the trade union magazine SOLIDARITY and...
Martin Wicks is a trade union and political activist, a member of the GMB and Secretary of Swindon Trades Union Council. He edits the trade union magazine SOLIDARITY and...
Nine years after it was delivered, Tony Blair’s speech to the 2001 Labour Party conference remains a chilling piece of hubris and hypocrisy. Britain’s government, he...
Martin Wicks is a trade union and political activist, a member of the GMB and Secretary of Swindon Trades Union Council. He edits the trade union magazine SOLIDARITY and...
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The Heart of...
“…To allow discourse to collapse of its own weight… minus any area to serve as a common ground…” Michel Foucault, 1986 on what might result from disavowing what is...
There have been a great many responses to the government’s plans to abolish the UK Film Council so far, including a Facebook protest group, a campaign website and a...
New Left Project talks to Matthew Alford, author of “Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy”, about the myth of liberal Hollywood and the power of...
Michael Neumann is a Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He has long been a tireless critic of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, and has written...
It has become overwhelmingly clear that the Coalition government is using the deficit and the claimed need for “austerity” as a pretext to greatly boost the power of the...
The ability of dominant elites to exploit crises and configure them in ways appropriate to their narrow interests is a capitalist staple. The economic crisis was...
In the second part of a discussion of left-wing political philosophy, Edward Lewis and the political philosopher Stuart White discuss how to institutionalise the values of...
The NLP cuts debate has consisted of an opening argument by Richard Seymour, and responses from Sunny Hundal, Tom Denning, Andrew Fisher, Kevin Blowe and David Wearing. Here,...
My own contribution to the NLP cuts debate (more of a discussion, as it turns out) comes in two halves. Other contributors have placed some focus on future activism, and the...
Had he lived long enough to witness it, I’m sure neo-liberalism’s godfather Milton Friedman would have been proud of Cameron and Clegg’s coalition government, which,...
Sometimes it’s hard to respond at length to an analysis you agree with. In such cases it’s best not to do so, for you end up nitpicking around the margins. Instead,...
Tom Denning is a member of The Commune, an organisation which stands for communism from below, and writes here in a personal capacity. He is involved in a local anti-cuts...